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In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.

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Karl Kraus
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: March 28
Died: 1936
Died: June 12
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In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.
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One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.
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On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.
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Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.
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What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
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When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.
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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
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A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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To write a novel may be pure pleasure. To live a novel presents certain difficulties. As for reading a novel, I do my best to get out of it.
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A weak man has doubts before a decision a strong man has them afterwards.
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Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.
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I like to hold a monologue with women. But a dialogue with myself is more stimulating.
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The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.
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There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue its secondary stage, boredom its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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